Note: Recent research indicates that the Minquas Path did not follow Island Road but followed a more direct path, between Powers Lane and Jones Lane, to the trading posts

Printz's or Old Swedes Mill

In 1645, some 35 years before Penn's Arrival, Swedish Governor Johann Printz built a grist mill ("Norse" or "Splash" mill) in what the Lenape referred to as Karakung and we know today as Cobbs Creek, next to the Blue Bell Inn. The mill was the first water driven mill in what would later become Pennsylvania and the site can be called the birthplace of Pennsylvania industry.

The Mill was a "Norse" or "Splash" mill. There is a model in the Hagley Museum and an example in the Mercer Museum in Doylestown